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Fusion, hmmmm...., fusion. In order to understand if fusion is possible in the next 50 or even 100 years (currently, the way scientists are going about it, I don't think it is) you have to understand how they want to achieve it. They use what is called a tokamak device, basically a donut shaped structure that accelerates ions (plasma) around magnetic field lines contained within the "donut". This plasma follows the lines in a helical way (one of the main problems with magnetic con

AA is alcoholics anonymous....j/k It's actually Anti-Aliasing, basically where the video card renders each frame more than once and combines the renders together to get a smoother final frame that is displayed. (it actually has to do with signal processing, but that could take a while to explain, that was just the short and easy version) You won't have to worry about a PSU, even if it is only

I think that it is great to see that prices are falling all over the US....for now. An election coming up soon that will determine who controls the House and the Senate and the falling gas prices....coincidence, most definitely not. If ever anyone needed proof that maybe, just maybe, the current government does have something do to with the gas prices this is it.

I was never a big fan of the FPS, I do play them every so often though. When everyone was so big on Halo I played it, I beat it , and I played 16 player multiplayer a bunch, then I realized that I could get the same gameplay by playing just about any other FPS. In fact I think that doom I is a better game. Fortunately whether or not Halo is a good game is not the topic of this thread, I'm sure that Microsoft could make halo 2 work on XP, but that wanted something that would help out w

I don't think anyone really addressed the reason why this subject was even debated in the first place: 2003 UB313 The distance form the sun is at Perihelion is about 37 AU (Pluto’s is about 30 AU) (at Aphelion it is about 97 AU, Pluto’s is about 50 AU) Needless to say it is very far out there. The diameter is only approximate, 2400km +- 100km Pluto is only 2306km +- 20km That would make this new planet the same size, if not bigger, than Pluto.

If night hawk was really an "expert" historian and astrophysicist he would know of a little thing called the Schwarzschild Radius. Any object smaller then it's own Schwarzchild Radius is a black hole. The Sun's Schwarzchild radius is about 3 km and the Earth's is about 9 mm So anything in the universe can become a black hole, it just has to be small enough (smaller than it's Schwarzchild Radius) A smaller black hole will also have less of a gravitational effec

Man I love it when people think they understand polotics... it makes me laugh! Did you know that whne President Roosevelt was president he accualy had a Soviet Spy advising him at Yalta? And there was evidence before that was presented to Roosevelt and his liberal friends that Alger Hiss was a spy. It was even proven he was a spy but Roosevelt didn't listen.

TesiaPowered, then I'd like you to explain to me why this happened: A buddy of mine with an Nvidia chipset went out and bought an ATI card, when he started playing on it there were graphical artifacts and weird direct3d rendering errors. I told him that it was probably because of the nvidia chipset (after we updated the drivers) so he took the ATI card back and got an Nvidia card. It worked like a charm. So don't go spouting that it doesn't matter, when it certainly can, since it's the ch

Considering that the chipset that is on the motherboard is ATI it would be a very bad idea to buy a Nvidia card. The card that I would recommend is an ATI x1600XT PCIe. It runs newer games great and will certainly run GalCiv2 excellently. From newegg it will run you about $110 for the one made by Sapphire: WWW Link Whatever you decide to do, DO NOT buy an Nvidia card, your chipset is

I can't get to it either, IE or Firefox. I was looking forward to downloading some of these ships and stomping my neighbors into the ground with some Federation firepower

I don't know if anyone has ever heard of this game, it was the first one I ever played: Sammy Lightfoot on the Apple II (5.25" floopy...lol) Ever since then I have played all kinds of computer games from GATO on my Apple IIGS to Doom 3 and Oblivion. Some of my favorite games include Load Runner, Galaga, and Bolder Dash as well as newer games like Oblivion and Warhammer 40k Dawn of War.

It looks like it's those two assert errors in memman.cpp so it's possible that there is no setting you can change that will solve the problem. I'd look at that file myself but my own C++ knowledge probably doesn't extend that far. That's why they call it a beta.

Amensotep, after reading your response to my post near the top of page 2 I now realize that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. If you think E=(+ or -)m*c^2 is the Dirac equation you are sorely mistaken, so mistaken in fact that anything that you say that deals with physics can't be taken seriously anymore. I, on the other hand, have used the Dirac Equation (yes, the one that allows for the existance of antiparticles and in fact was responsible for the discovery of them) in

Without knowing a lot about you integrated graphics it's possible that they are better then the card you bought. I assume you don't have an AGP port on your motherboard (if you do then shame on you for buying PCI ) You should also make sure that you turn off the integrated graphics in the bios. If you aren't getting the kind of proformance that you want I looked up some of the best card

yeah, I must have missed it when I reviewed what I was going to post, thanks

Azrune, I think you need to review your Classical Mechanics, Because everything you just said is incorrect, (except for the part about all the light being blocked) The mass of a planet doesn't keep it from being sucked into the sun. The orbital velocity is what determines the orbit....faster velocities the closer you get to the sun, all this can be determined with the vis viva equation, that's how they send satellites to other planets....by what you said a sat would get sucked into the

You'd actually never have to worry about a star going Nova, as Novas only ever happen in systems with a white dwarf and at least one more star (binary systems and so on). I think doing a ringworld would be kinda cool, but they'd have to find a way to balance it well and have the computers use then wisely (or they could end up spending all their time just building ringworlds around all their stars).

Amensotep, if science had no clue what was going on then you certainly wouldn't be typing a reply to a forum post by using a computer. In fact, way back when, I had to take a physics class called "Circuits" where we learned about how simple and (near the end of the class) more complex circuits worked, in other words "the physics of circuits". So it was science and scientific theories and equations that allowed us to build the circuits in the computer that you are using right now to read this p

I think that in SG1 it feels like a war now. With the snakes it really didn't feel like one all the time because of all the infighting and such. I like it, and I can't wait to see what they will come up with to beat those seemingly impenetrable shields.

The ferengi ships look like thoes that are in BOTF...

There are a lot of requirements and things that you must know before doing the kind of upgrade that you probably need. I'd say a good start is a new processor and vid card. Depending on you motherboard and what socket it is that could be easy or hard, which may mean a new motherboard. The good news is that a mobo, processor, and vid card that is mid range could cost as little as 200 dollars ($40 for the mobo, 50-75 for the processor, around 100 for the vid card) But like I said there are a l

The bottom one looks like some kind of coffee company logo (looks like a mug with vapor rising out of it), but I have no idea.

Oh my god, I hope none of you are physics majors! (If there are physics majors in here they need to review their kinematics) Centrifugal force does not exist! It is a fictitious force that shows up in a rotating reference frame. It is not a real force, the force you are looking for is called centripetal force. It's where a rotating object is split into two vectors, radial accel and tangential accel....it's kinda long to explain so I suggest looking it up before more people throw about

The beauty of science is that most of the time the theories are incorrect, which will then lead to new theories. With every wrong brings the world one step closer to what is correct. Except for one thing, nothing is ever "pulled out of someone’s backside". The things that real scientist come up with always has some basis, whether it is observational data or somehow caused by a theory or combination of theories (As told to me by my modern physics professor Glen A. Rebka, look him up he did som

I guess talk of Astrophysics can get off topic rather quick. I just want to make a short comment about the black holes and comet life discussions that have been going on. People seem to make black holes far simpler than they actually are. Example: BHs suck stuff in, light can't escape them and they emit x-ray and ultraviolet radiation. While this is basically true, much is lost in the simplification. In my first astrophysics class that I ever took we through the